Fringe Festival

Taking to heart the Bard’s “All the world’s a stage,” the Chicago Shakespeare Theater is taking its latest production to the streets with a technological assist from Motorola Mobility. The Chicago-based company is producing a scavenger-hunt-type immersion experience in “Since I Suppose,” a production inspired by Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure.” But “Since I Suppose” is no ordinary production. Each “audience” member makes a solo trek to spots in the city to encounter characters in the production. The theater’s Web site calls the production “a site-responsive pedestrian theatrical...

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